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  Coal scam: Two directors of Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd get bail

  India | January 14, 2015 11:33 IST

  New Delhi:Directors of Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd R S Rungta and R C Rungta were today granted bail by a special court in connection with a coal blocks allocation scam case after they appeared before

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  Coal India transporting extra coal to power plants

  January 05, 2015 15:11 IST

  New Delhi: State-owned Coal India is transporting extra coal to the power plants to help them tide over the likely disruption of supplies following the proposed five-day strike by the unions beginning tomorrow."Coal India (CIL)

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  Cabinet approves ordinance on coal, insurance reforms

  December 24, 2014 13:07 IST

  New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved ordinances on raising FDI in insurance sector and coal block auction.The bills could not be taken up in the Rajya Sabha, whose functioning was paralysed in the

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  Private sector needs to contribute 600 MT coal by 2020: Govt

  December 21, 2014 9:19 IST

  New Delhi: With domestic demand for coal likely to soar to 1.6 billion tonnes by 2020, government has said it is looking at the private sector to contribute 600 MT, while the rest will come

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  Coal scam case: CBI cannot sit over the matter, says court

  India | December 15, 2014 15:02 IST

  New Delhi:  CBI today faced the ire of a special court for failing to furnish the progress report in the further probe ordered by it in a coal blocks allocation case with the judge observing

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  Government taking steps for smooth transportation of coal: Anil Swarup

  November 23, 2014 12:14 IST

  Mumbai: The government is taking steps to ensure hassle-free transportation of coal from remote mines, apart from increasing its production capacity, Coal Secretary Anil Swarup has said.The government has decided to auction over 74 coal

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  Govt taking steps for smooth transportation of coal: Anil Swarup

  India | November 23, 2014 11:08 IST

  Mumbai: The government is taking steps to ensure hassle-free transportation of coal from remote mines, apart from increasing its production capacity, coal secretary Anil Swarup has said.The government has decided to auction over 74 coal

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  Coal block reallocation must give level-playing field: Industry

  October 22, 2014 7:13 IST

  New Delhi: Even as the ordinance allowing reallocation of coal blocks cancelled by the Supreme Court received presidential approval on Tuesday, the Indian industry welcomed the move saying reforms towards a transparent allocation system must

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  Goa government to reduce taxes on import of coal

  India | August 06, 2014 8:18 IST

  Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar yesterday announced to scale down the state taxes onimport of coal.The existing green cess and rural welfare cess on the import of coal through Mormugao Port Trust has stopped

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  Won't fund Adani's coal port expansion in Aus: Deutsche Bank

  May 24, 2014 19:13 IST

  Melbourne: Deutsche Bank has refused to fund the expansion of one of the world's biggest coal ports by India's Adani Group near the ecologically sensitive Great Barrier Reef in Australia after protests by green activists. 

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  Panel asked to expedite report on JSPL coal sale

  April 13, 2014 19:40 IST

  New Delhi: The inter-ministerial committee which is probing allegations that Jindal Steel and Power Ltd sold coal to third parties from its mines allocated for captive use has been asked by the Coal Ministry to

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  SC seeks clarifications from Centre on Coal block allocations

  India | September 11, 2013 21:03 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court today sought several clarifications from the Centre relating to the policy and guidelines adopted in coal block allocations which was extended to private sector in the post-liberalisation era.A bench headed

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  Major fire averted in train carrying 1000 tonnes of coal

  India | September 05, 2013 20:39 IST

  Chennai: A major fire was averted today on a freight train carrying approximately 1000 tonnes of coal to a thermal unit in Mettur from here, officials said.They said a gangman noticed columns of smoke billowing

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  Sail urges Odisha govt to allow its mines to operate

  July 09, 2013 10:30 IST

  Bhubaneswar, Jul 9: Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) yesterday requested Odisha government not to shut down its mines, operating under deemed extension provision, in the event of non-payment of stamp duty.The request was made

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  Third party sampling of coal likely by December

  July 07, 2013 14:41 IST

  New Delhi, July 7: Third-party sampling of coal supplied by Coal India (CIL) is likely to be put in place by the end of this year, the Coal Ministry has said."Implementation of third party sampling

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  Bihar gets coal block for thermal power projects

  July 05, 2013 11:51 IST

  Patna, July 5: The central government has allocated a separate coal block for three upcoming thermal power projects in electricity starved Bihar, a state minister said here on Friday."It is a big relief for Bihar.

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  Policy on surplus coal usage may be ready by November

  July 04, 2013 19:40 IST

  New Delhi, July 4: The draft policy on the usage of surplus coal from captive mines circulated to concerned ministries is likely to be finalised by this November-end, a coal ministry source said on Thursday.The

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  Coal to be king by 2017

  December 19, 2012 10:44 IST

  Mumbai, Dec 19: Powered by the growth in emerging market giants China and India, coal is set to surpass oil as as the world's top fuel source by around 2017, the International Energy Agency forecast

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  Cong Core group meets on coal issue, Sonia to talk to allies

  Politics | September 28, 2012 17:04 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 1: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be holding consultations with UPA constituents and allies on ways and means to break the deadlock in Parliament over the coal block allocation issue.An indication to

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  Govt may cancel coal block allocations : report

  August 30, 2012 10:09 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 30 : The government may cancel the allocation of more than 50 of the 57 coal blocks mentioned in the recent CAG report if it finds that the mining projects have not